1971-01-23 Gay Liberationists demonstrate in New Orleans

Members of the Gay Liberation Front march on City Hall in New Orleans to protest police entrapment and harassment, the first such public demonstration in the state of Louisiana. The GLF followed up on this action the next month when it held a “gay-in” picnic in City Park, to test the right of gays and lesbians to assemble and socialize in public.

1971-02-20 Gay Liberation in London

In London, as Gay Liberation Front men leaflet outside, GLF women enter the Gateway Club, a popular lesbian bar, to protest the earlier expulsion by the owner of several women who were active in GLF. Demonstrators unplugged the juke box and shouted “gay is good.” Police arrest 13 of the demonstrators.

1971-05-01 Gay liberationists demonstrate in Paris

Members of the Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire, a gay liberation group, demonstrate publicly for the first time in Paris as a contingent in the annual Workers’ Day march.

1971-07-23 Gay Liberation Front protest in Bloomington Indiana

Members of the Gay Liberation Front of Bloomington Indiana picket and distribute flyers outside a popular bar and restaurant, Nick’s English Hut, that was near the Indiana University campus. GLF was protesting a sign that the owner had posted in the bar: “This Is Not a Fruit Stand.” In response to the protests, the sign was taken down.